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Subject: 
Re: Real "lights" in town?
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Date: 
Thu, 5 Sep 2002 20:04:35 GMT
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In lugnet.town, John Gerlach writes:
> In lugnet.town, Kevin Cheng writes:
> <snip>
> > 
> > Great!  That sounds pretty easy, the only thing I'm worried about is that
> > the bricks would melt if I made a series of stadium lights near each other.
> > 
> > Kevin
> Actually, LED lights put out almost *no* heat, so you shouldn't have any
> problems.  The GMLTC uses LEDs all over our layout, and we have no problems
> with them getting too warm.

John, can it be true that the amount of heat a LED puts out varies according
to the "model" (I dunno if I can refer to LEDs as if they were cars, do they
really have different models with different performances)?

I have seen LEDs getting hot, although I dunno if they were working ok.


Pedro



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  Re: Real "lights" in town?
 
In lugnet.town, Kevin Cheng writes: <snip> (...) Actually, LED lights put out almost *no* heat, so you shouldn't have any problems. The GMLTC uses LEDs all over our layout, and we have no problems with them getting too warm. Now our 3volt (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-02, to lugnet.town)

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